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Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Bertolt Brecht

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Art Discovery Reality
Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.
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Great Something Virtue Wrong
Why be a man when you can be a success?
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Inspirational Life Motivational
When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.
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Mean World
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
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Faces Fall People
Spring is noticed, if at all By people sitting in railway trains.
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People Sitting Spring
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
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Able Strong Theatre
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Come Late never Too
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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Brother Cities Thinking
People who understand everything get no stories.
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People Stories Understand
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor ordered: “Brecht, amputate a leg!”, I would reply, “Certainly, Your Excellency!”, and cut off the leg. If I was told, “Perform a trepanning!”
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Cutting Men Transfusion War
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
Eats first, morals after.
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Eat Firsts Moral

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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